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Dead men walking imo. Schoen probably can find a job here if he wants one, or in carolina if he wants to get let go in a year or two when morgan gets scapegoated by ownership handcuffs.

I went through the box score, tyrod got hurt so he clearly wasn't prepared to play. But isn't that on the coaching staff for having a backup who's wholly unprepared to play?

Lions-Bills listed as CBS on the bills schedule, so i'd imagine its the romo game and won't get flexed. Rams the week before is a maybe to flex to MNF, the slates pretty weak and the only other tempting one is vikings falcons, and the vikings play on MNF the next week. At the same time that'd be 3 MNF bills games, and the cowboys-bengals will probably still draw just fine.

For sure - its a different type of counter to a 0 blitz, but allen's clock is accelerated and he's got cooper in a 1x1 so let it rip.

Rush looked better last game, he was thrown to the wolves against philly. I don't know how these coaches can put together game plans for backup QBs and have no threat down the field, then expect anything to happen on offense. Reminded me of the first Devito start last season when they just handcuffed him completely and expected to have a chance to win. I might have fired daboll on the spot after that train wreck.

Either way he's getting hit most likely, i'd say moving into the contact makes the throw a bit easier.

It's one of the things McCarthy struggled with in green bay. Even moreso in dallas you really need to assert yourself and manage the entire organization - not just call plays. Parsons in particular seems to be a player who... needs some extra attention. Talent is there, you just need to figure out how to get that talent on the field every play. A captain in the Sean Lee mold would do wonders for them.

Fair point. It's weird to look at their roster, because i question where all of the money goes. Dak being out kills their offense, and lawrence being out seems to have killed their defense. They miss an impact player at defensive end, and their linebackers aren't very good.

Honestly if allen finds the back there he's got the first down easy too, good job showing his numbers to the QB after the chip. He was already throwing to cooper but if he instead stepped up i think he finds davis for a nice gain.

I don't think he's a particularly bad talent evaluator. I'm not a big mccarthy fan, and hes a bit too into star players. The zeke contract was a disaster. He also tends to keep "his guys" even if they aren't that good, or are injury prone.

Shakir is kind of already the player we want in this role, and boundary WR was what we most needed. I don't know that shakir is better than Ladd, but shakir reminds me quite a bit as a smaller nacua. Great hands, great in traffic, great with the ball in their hand. They both just have an insane balance and low center of gravity to break tackles.

With his arm strength he needed to throw the ball before he had it 🙂 Eh - scout team has a specific job to emulate the oppositions offense. He's probably good at scouting, and at getting the scout team prepared to help the defense in practice that week.

I think they play it between quarters if I'm not mistaken? It's usually just like a boring tv timeout of people standing around.

It's a fun karaoke song, everyone knows the words... I'd try to remember that we're there to have fun.

Yeah, they got a tough road ahead. They're hard to play against with that defensive line, and the offense seems to have found some ability to move the ball with the 2-QB strategy. I'd say 3-3 in division so say they split with bengals and beat the browns - that would get them to 10 wins and cincy can't really afford to lose a game the rest of the way. These poor weather conditions for the remainder of the season tend to slow down passing attacks, so i don't see a real path for the bengals to run the table without some good weather luck.

I just don't get it. It's not even funny.

Probably - owners never played or coached football so... they don't know how to run a football team and would likely change their mind on a whim based on a single game performance. You're not the same team you were a week or two ago, players don't play well every week, and unsung people can step up and contribute. Ownership meddling to me tends to lead to names - splash signings and trades of players who have names you know.

They were up 16-14 at half. The last 2 TDs did not need a 2 point conversion. 2 score game makes it more valuable to kick with a higher percentage than a 2 point conversion.

If he couldn't outsnap hollins he either isn't good enough, or isn't working hard enough.

Thats good! He didn't seem to be the type to chirp too hard either way. But i've seen fights in a bunch of parking lots and... i'm sure they were started over less.

Guy was on my flight back from st. louis through BWI. I was talking to a couple who were wearing chiefs hoodies and i said "you'll have a good time, but i probably wouldn't antagonize the fan base and wear something like that on enemy turf"

I find Williams to be the biggest target in moving the sticks through the passing game. Its either outside between the corner in cover 3, or between bernard and him. Either way they're layering it and he's always late to the catch point.

He didn't work hard enough to earn snaps here. He is getting snaps with shaheed and olave out. When he did get snaps here, he didn't separate or make any plays.

I believe the last time we got blown out it was Indy and taylor just gashed us. And much like that game a massive brain fart occurred - at 17-7 with about 2 minutes left in the half and a chance to double dip - mckenzie fumbles and we get it back 24-7 and never got out of the pass happy approach.

I think we were banged up, there were some poor play calls at inopportune times, and got bullied in the trenches. It doesn't mean we can't play with them, just that we didn't that day. Bernard out. Johnson out. Literally 3 backups playing at LBer when you factor milano also being out. Rapp played 16 snaps. That's a lot of important players who didn't play. Offensively, this was pre-cooper and we had struggled with man coverage beaters, blitzes and simulated pressures. Seasons are long, stuff is put on film, and you adapt.